LESSON PLAN

School:Pictor Nicolae Grigorescu - Titu

Teacher: Cristina Cristea
Date: 21st of February
Grade: 5th
Number of students: 20
Textbook: Pathway to English - English Agenda
Topic: Past Tense Simple of Regular Verbs
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: fixation of knowledge and of developing skills and abilities
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:
a) to practice how to form Past Tense Simple with Regular verbs;
b) to put a Regular verb into Past Tense Simple, positive, negative and interrogative forms;
c) to use the newly acquired vocabulary in contexts of their own;
d) to form positive, negative and interrogative statements using Past Tense Simple;
e) to ask/ answer to questions, providing short answers.
Materials: worksheets, notebooks, whiteboard, chart, audio file, markers
Types of interaction: Teacher-whole class, Teacher- Student, Student- Student, Student-Teacher

Class management: whole class, individually, pair, group work

Assumptions: I assume that students have understood the grammatical category of Verb and are eager to find out more details/ things about
Regular Verbs in English and actions that began/finished in the past.

PROCEDURE
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Stages

Teacher`s activity and language

Students` activity and language

Interaction

Starting the
lesson

The teacher greets the students and

makes sure the conditions are proper
to start the lesson The teacher asks
for homework.The teacher corrects
and explains when/ if necessary.

The students on duty name the

absentees if necessary.
The students write the homework on
the blackboard if there are any
problems with it.

T-Ss

Activity 1
Warming Up

T asks Ss what they know (so far)

about the verbs in English. Who
can give a definition to verbs?
What do you know about verbs in
English?

Ss answer these questions in turns (3-4 T-Ss;

Ss), providing their examples.
Ss-T

Speaking

3`

Activity 2:
Presenting the
new lesson

T asks what kind of actions Past

Tense Simple denotes.
Past Tense denotes actions
that began and finished in the
past:
e.g. They played in the park
last week.
Past Tense also denotes past
habits:
e.g. My father often traveled

Ss answer and give their own

examples.

Speaking

5`

T-Ss;
Ss-T

Skills

Time
5`

by car when I was little.

4

Activity 3

T presents a chart and asks the Ss to

remember the spelling rules:
-verbs ending in e, take only d:
like- liked
-verbs ending in a consonant and y
transform the y into i +-ed: studystudied
-verbs ending in a consonant
proceeded by a vowel, double the
consonant at the end: stop-> stop+p+-ed= stopped
-verbs ending in l, double l and add
the ed ending: travel- travelled.
Then the T plays an audio file with
the pronunciation of past simple of
regular verbs.
T writes some regular verbs on the
board and asks Ss to come and write
and pronounce the past tense,
affirmative form of the verbs.

Activity 4

The Teacher divides the class into

five groups.
Then the Teacher gives each group a
large piece of paper and a marker.
The Teacher tells each
group to conjugate a certain verb
(out of: to play, to watch, to stop, to

Ss repeat the spelling rules they

learned in the previous lesson.

T-Ss

Speaking

8`

Ss-T

Ss listen to the audio material with

remembering the pronunciation rules
for ed endings.

Listening

Ss write on the board and pronounce

the affirmative form in the past tense

Writing

The Ss work in groups.

Ss follow the Ts instructions.

S-Ss;
T-Ss

Writing
Speaking

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like, to study) into the Past Tense

Simple (affirmative, negative and
interrogative forms).
The T asks the Ss to work together
and to help each other. After
finishing, the T asks the Ss to put
their papers on the classrooms walls
so that everybody could see them.
The Teacher tells the students from
each group to rotate and to visit each
work, making notes and correcting if
it is necessary.
This activity ends with conclusions.

Each group (of 4 students) goes to its

work and observes the notes made by
their classmates.

Activity 5

The Teacher asks some Ss to choose

one sentence on the teachers desk
and put it into English, then
providing an interrogative form of
that sentence.
e.g. 1) She played tennis yesterday.
Did she play tennis yesterday?
Yes, she did.
No, she didnt.
2) I watched TV last night.
3) They travelled to Romania last
year.
4) He played football in the garden.
5) My English teacher liked my
homework.

S has to name a colleague to give a

short answer (positive and negative) to
that question.

T- Ss
S-T
S-S

Speaking

8`

Activity 6

The T gives Ss worksheets and asks

Ss fill in the blanks with the Past

T-Ss

Writing

7`

them to work in pairs.

Tense of the verbs as required.

S-S

Activity 7
The feed-back of
the lesson

The teacher gives the Ss a piece of

paper, in the middle of which it is
written in a circle: Past Tense
Simple. The T does the same thing
on the blackboard. The T asks the
students about Past Tense and then
tells them to write on the paper all
that comes to their mind. The ideas
are written on the board and on their
papers. The T encourages the
students to express their ideas.

Ss express their ideas about Past Tense

Simple.

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

Activity 8

The teacher communicates the

students their homework, writing it
on the blackboard and asking the
students to write it on their
notebooks.

Ss note their homework on the

notebooks.

T-Ss

Writing
Speaking

5`

2`